November 27, 2023

Good Works Columbus: November 27, 2023

City park feedback opportunities and still time to drop off your gourds

Intro

Hi everyone, welcome back and happy Monday! If you have an upcoming event or a link you’d like to share for the newsletter, feel free to send suggestions. Please let me know if I missed something!

Things you can do online

• Give feedback on the Eastland Community Plan.
  

  "Creating an inclusive and equitable new chapter for Eastland requires a bold, long-term vision. This consists of a framework that centers around people, places, and opportunity. It is critical to identify the needs, challenges, and opportunities for all the stakeholders within the Eastland community, from housing to education to employment to history and culture.

  To create a community-driven vision, this planning process will engage Eastland area stakeholders who live, work, worship, play, and learn in the community. This will ensure the Eastland Community Plan will be a successful roadmap to a bright future for everyone.”

• Provide feedback to improve city parks. Three different parks are going through improvement plans right now with opportunities to provide feedback online or in person. The three city parks are Hauntz Park in Hilltop, Willow Creek Park in SW Columbus, and Gender Road Park in Canal Winchester.

• Help identify areas that can be improved for biking using this new online map from the city (best used on a non-mobile device).

  

  Bike Plus is a plan by the City of Columbus to create a safe, connected and comfortable network for people to bike, scooter, skate and roll in the city. Through transportation improvements like protected bike lanes, trail connections and crosswalks, we can make it more convenient and enjoyable to get around Columbus without a car. This plan will identify where these improvements are most needed to connect community members to the places they need and want to go.

  Use this online map to tell us where barriers need to be addressed to improve biking, scootering, skating and rolling for everyone in Columbus.

• Daylight Saving Time has ended and the nights are getting longer. Help Columbus folks ride their bike more safely by sponsoring a set of bike lights for $14 per set.

  

In Case You Missed It

• Take a survey to give feedback to the city of Columbus on its zoning update. The survey will ask you about building and housing preferences along the city’s main corridors as well as thoughts on parking minimums.

• Mark up the Vision Zero Columbus map. Have a close call walking, biking, or getting around town? Do you know a dangerous intersection that can be improved? Help identify these spots on the Vision Zero map.

Things to do in person

• (November 28th) Public open house hosted at Glenwood Community Center, located at 1888 Fairmont Avenue, Columbus. Stop by the open house from 5:30-7:30 p.m. to share your ideas for Hauntz Park’s redevelopment master plan at a public open house. This will be a visioning and co-creation session. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department is beginning the redevelopment of Hauntz Park in the fall of 2023, starting with the creation of a master plan for the park’s 5.6 acres.

• (November 30th) Public open house hosted at the Franklin County Forensic Science Center, located at 2090 Frank Road, Columbus. Stop by the open house from 6:30-8:30 p.m. to share your ideas for Willow Creek Park’s redevelopment master plan. This will be a visioning and co-creation session. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department is beginning the redevelopment of Willow Creek Park in the fall of 2023, starting with the creation of a master plan for the park and preserve.

• (December 5th) Gender Road Park public open house hosted at Gender Road Christian Church, located at 5336 Gender Road, Canal Winchester. Stop by the open house from 5:30-7:30 p.m. You can give feedback on preliminary concepts for Gender Road Park’s master plan.

• (Dates and locations vary) Help keep your gourd out of the landfill by dropping off your pumpkins at a participating compost drop-off in your area.

Have a great day everyone, until next time.